There are plenty of possibilities for so-called ‘Adrenaline kicks’ within what we call ‘Extreme-sport’, and ‘rafting’ is one of them! Here you may sit (rather safely) in a large rubber dinghy together with a bunch of other paddlers, but we impress on you the need for being an adept swimmer. Boats have overturned, and participants have been thrown overboard!

Hi, Kalabalu!
Where have you been hiding yourself lately? How’s things down your way? We’ve been reading that you’ve had temperatures around 45/50 degrees?
That’s hot, but actually it’s nothing new. I rem,ember visiting India (I seem to recall it being Mumbai at the time) when temperatures were arund 48 degs.
And this was way back aaround 1958 . . .
I think you have a lot of catching up to do? 🙂

‘Cool’ being (30 degrees at the moment), but we have been blessed with temperatures between 17 – 22 for a long time now. That’s a bit chilly for this time of the year, but now it seems to escalate. At least for the next 4-5 days to come.

You should not! It’s much about what one is used to. Being adapted to the temperatures of a Norwegian spring (8 – 14 degrees) 30-35 becomes ‘murder’.
In my youth (sailing on the Indian and Far East coast) adapted to temperatures in the range of 35-50 I remember playing soccer in an Indian park in 48 degs.
It was no picknic, but on the other hand it was quite voluntary! But – important – you adapt to temperature variations much easier being young than old!!!
That’s one hell of a difference!!! Today I thrive best between 15 – 23 !!! (That’s the way it is!)

Yes! But for quite another reason: Being adapted to +40-50, you’d probably freeze to death if you were unfortunate enought to meet up with one of our colder summer days (around 10-12 degs) 🙂 I can still remember beeing in Calcutta where hundreds of people froze to their deaths during one night – at + 6 degrees C!!! And I remember I and the rest of the crew had great difficulty understanding how it could be possible to freeze to death with ‘plus temperatures’? But they werer probably used to + 25-30 degrees during nights.